By Melinda Myers A garden filled with flowers, birds, bees and butterflies is a sight to behold. These winged beauties add color, sound and motion to our gardens. Plus, they help maximize a garden’s productivity by pollinating plants and managing plant-damaging pests. But what about those unwanted visitors to the garden? The aphids, mites and […]
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KINGS BEACH – The California Tahoe Conservancy for the first time in four years decided to give Executive Director Patrick Wright a performance review. The board members spent 2½ hours in closed session in the middle of the June 15 meeting to do the review. This was while many CTC staff members mulled about – […]
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By Emily Harrington, Moonshine Ink Being an “adventurer” used to mean something different. It was a solitary act; something people did to get away from normal life where they could find meaning away from the modern world of technology, money, fame, and ego. Or rather, that was the intrinsic definition we once gave to the […]
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To the community, South Lake Tahoe City Council will be placing a road improvement measure on the upcoming Nov. 7 ballot. If passed, this one-half cent sales tax measure would provide approximately $2.5 million annually that could only be used to fund the repairs that our aging roads in South Lake Tahoe desperately need. Passage […]
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· Volunteers are needed June 28 from 9am–noon at Ed Z’berg Sugar Pine Point State Park to remove an invasive annual grass from a small area that is mostly populated by native species. Kids ages 10 and up welcome with a legal guardian. For more info, go online. · Douglas County Public Library in Minden […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News this month will be running several stories leading up to the 10th anniversary of the Angora Fire on June 24, 2007. By Joanne Marchetta Ten years later, I recall it like yesterday. “Hey Joanne, come look at this.” I stood on our deck and squinted. I could see a wisp […]
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By Larry Weitzman The current conspiracy to eliminate senior legal has become a tag team wrestling match. First in the ring was Don Ashton who said, “I needed to find another $250,000 to cut to make the $280 million General Fund budget work.” Ashton was cutting another one-tenth of 1 percent (a one-one thousandth) of […]
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By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post Depression is usually considered an issue parents have to watch out for starting in the turbulent teenage years. The CW channel, full of characters with existential angst about school, friends and young love, tells us so, as do the countless parenting books about the adolescent years in every guidance counselor’s office. But what if by that […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal It’s mid-June, and the Black Rock Desert is still a giant mud puddle. Although it’s been a game of wait and see for Burning Man organizers, they are still confident that Burners will be able to come home for their annual end of summer bacchanal. Burning Man, a massive arts rendezvous, is set for […]
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Publisher’s note: This letter was sent to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors on June 15, 2017. Dear Board of Supervisors, As the chair of Friends of Seniors, a local nonprofit under the El Dorado Community Foundation, I have become familiar with the excellent senior services we have in El Dorado County, and the […]
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